In the middle of a storm.

They do say it's gong to be stormy for a few days..but I was referring to the mind storm in my head right now. There's so so many thing flying around and wanting to be figured out and made up...if only I had all the time in the world.

 I have done some things that I will tell you all about when I feel less tired..and more focused..but right now all I can think of is my slightly odd adoration of Love Death and Paris. Probably brought on by my new favourite song: Quand vous mourrez de nos amours by Rufus Wainwright. (Notice how I am trying to pretend it's new and not at all deeply rooted in my personality long before I ever heard this song.) For some reason old pictures of people have always fascinated me, not despite, but because they have all been dead for a long time. Maybe it's my past lives talking..but there's just something safe and familiar about it. 

Anyways..This days happy place is Montmartre..because never did I feel more like I could be a piece of the same puzzle.

..and because love really is the greatest thing you'll ever know.

Dance Dance!

 Why?

..it's 1 am and this just made me laugh so hard I fell of the chair, that's why!

The corset wearers _or_"It's part of our artistic lifestyle!"

..the last one is something I said a lot last weekend..and plan to use a lot more..sometimes you just need a short way to shut someone up. It's all part of the philosophy "either you get it, or you just don't". 

..but obviously, the seamstress in me also see the silhouettes of the 1860's, 1880's & 1900..sort of.

But mostly I just want to say..corsets are awesome! whether you're a pseudo-Victorian or just feel like being eccentric at a party. Either way, this one's for my girlfriends..there's no one I'd rather mock porn with <3

Trying things out..!

Just some things I'm trying out..

After having finished my Victorian outfit I thought I'd try my newly successful pattern on something else, so I made a jacket. A little modified of course (the first one was made for corset wearing) but basically the same design. Turns out that went really well..just not for me. Too big, too white and too short, but it looks nice when I'm not wearing it. So hopefully I'll find a home for it somewhere else...on someone else's much taller and much more suntanned body. Or something.

And the other things there are my new hat..and a first try at a plain cotton cap..but I underestimated the size of my head. On Lus head it fit perfectly..but he's not always into showing things of..

But the next try out is much more successful!  It's a birthday present that I finished just last weekend for my girlfriend (..a relationship that used to be a lot weirder, trust me). She's always been an inspiration for dollmaking, but until now I've never really been able to capture her..always too light and too proportional..and a little big headed..but that's what they all suffer from. So now I present, my girlfriend in a jar!

At first I was going to continue my street-children-theme..but for some reason I think that might creep her out..so she became a 2011 forest princess! That's as modern as it gets people!

Next up is some shirt making..and some dollmaking (Lorna Doon style probably, I just can't get that out of my mind!).. and what am I gonna wear to the slumber-party this weekend? (..yeah..that's probably just exactly what it sounds like..)

Just one last thing..

 

..because I need to remember this day as the day when something good happened too, today I finished the last piece to my 1880's outfit. The final buttonhole on the final petticoat is now done! Now I can step into Victorian London and blend right in!

Most of all I'm surprised I managed to do this much before something else caught my attention and then I'd be in the place where I'm most..sidetracked and lots of lose pieces lying around. 

And because today deserves a happy place:

London 2011

Happy Halloween people!

Since today is the real Halloween I'm trying to keep the scary spirit up, but most of it is all partied out I must confess..Fortunately for me my outfit looked a lot better on me than on the mannequin, but not very witchy..more like a Fable barmaid..but I can live with that too! The party was wild enough for no one to actually ask me what I dressed up as, and the only clue to the witchiness was my poiton-bottle-necklace. Either way, my goal was to look very Fabel-y! 

..And now might be a good time to mention that Fable is my favourite game (or maybe I should say my only game..which would be a vicious lie, because I have two! there's also Kefflings..), but more for the world it has..not so much for the story of the game. One of my impossible wishes is to move in to the world of fable..maybe in a house in Bowerstone..or Oakfield..that would be today's happyplace.

But on the that subject, my Halloween outfit (which is not of the 1800's as most of my stuff lately) and the film Lorna Doone that I watched part of this morning made me so very inspired to go back in time further than usually and do more 1600's things..we'll see..It's calling for me...

Witching it up!

 

Just a short one before I go to sleep way too late again. 

As I said, I threw together a witches outfit for Halloween..though it looks mostly peasant-y..and here I am flaunting it. The only new (that is relatively new, it's part of a dress I made  10 years ago) thing is the apron and an adorable little potion flask-necklace (tame travel, my favourite!). Then there's the pirate chemise and stays with a black underskirt and two red skirts on that and thadaa! I'm so rolling around in it right now. 

And just as a side note: as you can see, mannequins don't really lace up that well...

..and one can wonder..is that a 4th generation of dressmakers I'm seeing..?